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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2012-02-14" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Flinders Medical Centre</name>
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        <heading>FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2010-06-01" qonNum="95">
            <name>FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE</name>
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        <text id="20120214f8df05b76011481590000272">95 <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett)</by> (1 June 2010) (First Session).  How many patients have been referred to the specialist outpatient clinic waiting list and the emergency department waiting list at Flinders Medical Centre in the past 12 months, and how many patients are currently on the specialist outpatient clinic waiting list and the emergency department waiting list for each of the following outpatient services—Allergy (adult and paediatric), Dermatology, ENT, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics (shoulders and ankles) and Psychiatry?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="535" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Ageing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2010-06-01" qonNum="95">
            <name>FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE</name>
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          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts):</by> I am advised:</text>
        <text id="20120214f8df05b76011481590000274">1.&amp;#x9;7,441 patients were referred in the specified 12-month period.</text>
        <text id="20120214f8df05b76011481590000275">2.&amp;#x9;The Flinders Medical Centre Emergency Department does not have a booked waiting list, nor does the Emergency Department have outpatient clinics.</text>
        <text id="20120214f8df05b76011481590000276">3.&amp;#x9;The number of patients on waiting lists at Flinders Medical Centre for the following outpatient clinics at that time were:</text>
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              <cell>Outpatient Clinic</cell>
              <cell>Patients to be seen</cell>
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              <cell>Allergy (Adult)</cell>
              <cell>133</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Allergy (Child)</cell>
              <cell>159</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Dermatology &amp; Clinical Immunology</cell>
              <cell>600</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>ENT</cell>
              <cell>2,026</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Neurology</cell>
              <cell>1,308</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Neurosurgery</cell>
              <cell>845</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Orthopaedics (Shoulders &amp; Elbows)</cell>
              <cell>104</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Orthopaedics (Foot &amp; Ankle)*</cell>
              <cell>181</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Psychiatry—Centre for Anxiety &amp; Related Disorders</cell>
              <cell>28</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Psychiatry—Weight Disorders Unit</cell>
              <cell>17</cell>
            </row>
          </table>
        </text>
        <text id="20120214f8df05b76011481590000278" />
        <text id="20120214f8df05b76011481590000279">*Please note that Orthopaedics have relocated outpatients for foot and ankle to the Repatriation General Hospital as of February 2010. The data above relates to the Repatriation General Hospital data, not Flinders Medical Centre data.</text>
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